Ferguson Talks about “Eureka” Season 3.5

One of the more frequent questions we get asked here at Slice of SciFi is “When is “Eureka” coming back”?

Well, we’ve got some good news for you. SciFi has confirmed that the popular series will be back in July for the second half of its third season. Unfortunately, we can’t give you a specific date for the series’ return, but as soon as we have it we’ll let you know.

But before that, we do have some news about what you expect to see when the series finally returns. Fans may recall that last time we checked in on things in “Eureka,” Sheriff Jack Carter has been removed from his office, Nathan Stark had sacrficed himself to save the town and his wife, Allison Blake has just discovered she was pregnant.

Actor Colin Ferguson said fans can expect the second half of the season to pick up right where things left off last summer.

“So that picks up right after there, where Salli is pregnant through the whole season,” Ferguson told SciFi Wire. “One of Joe [Morton’s] … I keep using the actors’ names … One of Joe’s long-lost loves comes back. My character has a love interest all the way through. And then Jordan [Hinson], my daughter, deals with “Is she going to go to college and leave Eureka or is she going to stay?” So all that stuff gets resolved.”

Ferguson says that while the show hasn’t been picked up for a fourth season, he does feel confident it will be back.

“It’s definitely in the cards,” he said. “They tell us we were not picked up, but they say, “You’re coming back.” So we’re coming back, although we may go on a prolonged hiatus. We may not shoot for another 11 months, potentially, sort of to get us back onto a summer schedule. We shot through winter last year. In fact, we just wrapped. And that wasn’t as fun as shooting in the middle of summer. So I think they’re going to move us back to summer.”

Ferguson’s confidence wasn’t always there in regards to the show. He cited examples of the network not being sure about the pilot and the cast filming scenes both as a comedy and a drama.

” I think SCI FI, in some ways, or this particular administration, has sort of cut their teeth a little bit on Eureka, sort of learning what they wanted a more mainstream show to be,” Ferguson said. “And so that’s been an amazing thing to be a part of, because we all feel very close as we all figured out where we wanted it to go, and at the same time we’ve definitely had some rough patches. So, was I confident out of the gate? No. I hoped that it would go, and I’m most pleased that what we did was validated and that it’s still on the air. That’s a nice feeling.”

“Eureka” returns in July on SciFi.